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“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be…”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?”
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Madison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Madison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
14 books
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6 friends
0 books
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12 friends
51 books
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20 friends
279 books
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29 friends
7 books
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7 friends
608 books
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9 friends
153 books
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16 friends
886 books
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31 friends
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